Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A branch of the Indo-European language family that consists of the Baltic and Slavic languages.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Proto-Balto-Slavic language, people who spoke it and their culture. - proper noun
Proto-Balto-Slavic language, i.e. a common development stage between theProto-Indo-European and the laterBaltic andSlavic languages. - proper noun A speaker of
Proto-Balto-Slavic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages
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Examples
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In other dialects namely Balto-Slavic, there seems to have been no contrast maximization between the glottalized and plain-voiced stops.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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Linguists have also noted that the Balto-Slavic branch shows affinities with Germanic, which has led to the notion of an earlier Balto-Slavic-Germanic language area in prehistoric northern Europe.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Linguists have also noted that the Balto-Slavic branch shows affinities with Germanic, which has led to the notion of an earlier Balto-Slavic-Germanic language area in prehistoric northern Europe.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The fact that *melit is not attested in the eastern branches by which we mean Indo-Iranian and Tocharian, presumably; Balto-Slavic is rather in-between is not evidence for anything in itself; that is an argumentum ex silentio, which I'm sure you're aware is a logical fallacy.
My sweet honey bee 2010
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Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and ...
The end was NYE 2008
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Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and ...
The science of Lake Euxine and the mythology of Noah's Flood 2008
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It just so happens that in Germanic *bʰ became *b while in Balto-Slavic *bʰ and *b merged so it would then stand to reason that it was after this change that the case endings were free to be mistaken with those in /m/ like the accusative *-m and genitive plural *-om.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The standard description of Winter's Law by Mr. Winter himself was that in Balto-Slavic, vowels had somehow lengthened before PIE plain voiced *d but did not lengthen before voiced aspirated *dʰ.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and ...
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Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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